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mud-hook slang.
[mud n.1 5.]
1. a. An anchor.
1827J. F. Cooper Red Rover I. ii. 44 He would..fasten her to the spot with good hempen cables and iron mud⁓hooks. 1874W. M. Baines Narr. E. Crewe vii. 138 Cunningly drop your ‘mud-hook’ so that you exactly swing with the tide over the right spot. 1884‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 254 We at length found ourselves in port, and the mud-hook down. 1905J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide xii. 230 The partners agreed to undertake the job of recovering the lost ‘mud-hook’. 1960M. Sharcott Place of Many Winds x. 172 Gusts of wind tore their mud-hooks from the bottom of the anchorage.
b. (See quots.)
1918‘Tommy’ If I goes West! 25 Forget old Billy Summers with his board at ‘crown and anchor’—‘The Mud'ook, boys, and now's the time to bet!’ 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 34 Mud-hook..(2) the anchor in the game of ‘Crown and Anchor’. 1943Hunt & Pringle Service Slang 46 Mudhook, Army name for the Crown and Anchor board used surreptitiously by members of the forces.
2. a. A foot. b. A hand.
1850L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah xx. 276 This ‘mudhook’, holding out his foot, hasn't a moccasin on for nothin'. a1897F. B. Lloyd Sk. Country Life (1898) xl. 239 When a farmer goes to foolin with figgers he is puttin his mudhooks on powerful slippery ground. 1915Dialect Notes IV. 244 Mud hooks, n. pl. Feet. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 47 Mudhook, a foot. (2) A hand. 1952in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 347/2 C'mon, lift them mud hooks! |